Tour recluse Huguette Clark's art collection; viewing days set at Christie's New YorkMonet and Renoir masterpieces from the art collection of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, hidden away like their owner for nearly a century, will be available for viewing in New York beginning Friday, April 18. Christie's will auction the works in May and June. The collection includes rare books, furniture, paintings, silver, porcelain, jade and other objects, more than 400 in all.

Heiress Huguette Clark's 'Extra' Mansion Sells for $14 MillionAfter sitting empty for more than 60 years, the “extra” mansion owned by the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark — a French-style chateau sitting on 52 wooded acres — has at last found a buyer. The new owners are fashion designer Reed Krakoff and his wife, who scooped up the home for the drastically reduced price of $14.3 million.

Appeal of Huguette Clark estate deal droppedA California group has dropped its legal appeal of the deal to divide up the $300 million estate of Huguette Clark, removing the last major roadblock to dividing her copper fortune.

Deal divides Huguette Clark's $300 million estateA deal has been reached to divide up the $300 million estate of the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, a shy artist who lived her last 20 years in New York hospitals while her palatial homes sat empty.

Deal proposed in Huguette Clark estate trialA proposed settlement in the $300 million estate of the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark would give more than $30 million to her relatives, most of whom never met her. The deal would give nothing to her longtime nurse, who would have to pay back $5 million of the $31 million that she already received in gifts while Clark lived.

Jury selection starts, stops in heiress' estate trialAfter settlement talks collapsed again, jury selection began Thursday morning in New York in the trial to determine who will inherit the $300 million estate of Huguette M. Clark, the reclusive heiress to a copper mining fortune.

A look at Huguette Clark's jewelry collectionFreed from their bank vault by the executor of the estate, the jewels of copper heiress Huguette Clark go on sale at Christie's New York on April 17, including a rare pink diamond and these emerald, pearl and diamond ear pendants. Which piece do you prefer?

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The Clarks: an American story of wealth, scandal and mysteryWhy are the mansions of one of America’s richest women sitting vacant? Click to follow this photo narrative of the reclusive Huguette Clark and her father, William Andrews Clark, the "Paris millionaire senator." Where is Huguette Clark? And what will become of her fortune?

Where is mystery heiress?July 30,
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The estates of fabulously wealthy heiress Huguette Clark have been immaculately maintained — but empty — for decades. But at 104, she’s still alive — in a drab hospital room. The TODAY Show's Bob Dotson reports.

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Mystery heiressThe fabulously wealthy Huguette Clark was a staple of Jazz Age headlines. But while her magnificent properties remain immaculately maintained to this day, she hasn’t been seen in decades.